Impact of periconceptional undernutrition on adrenal growth and adrenal insulin-like growth factor and steroidogenic enzyme expression in the sheep fetus during early pregnancy

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1911-1920

  MacLaughlin, Severence M ^a,c   Walker, Simon K ^b   Kleemann, David O ^b   Sibbons, Jane P ^a   Tosh, Darran N ^a,c   Gentili, Sheridan ^c   Coulter, Catherine L ^a   McMillen, I Caroline ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 1; 11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; CYTOCHROME P450 17; FATTY ACID; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EWE; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATING; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; STEROIDOGENESIS; TWINS;

11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE TYPE 1; 11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE TYPE 2; ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FETAL NUTRITION DISORDERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GESTATIONAL AGE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALNUTRITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SHEEP; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROIDS; TWINS;

EID: 33947379152     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-0761     Document Type: Article

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